Short introduction to ITcon

The Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal on the use of IT in architecture, civil engineering and facility management. ITcon articles are submitted and published electronically only. The Journal is committed to minimizing publication delays, and to promoting maximum flexibility in the ways that readers use the journal for teaching, research, and scholarship while maintaining strict peer-review standards.

Journal of Information Technology in Construction is a Diamond Open Access journal which means that all publish material that is made available online in digital format, is free of charge for readers and authors and does not allow commercial and for-profit re-use. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of Open Access.

The copyright of the articles remains with the authors, from the start of 2009 using the Creative Commons Attribution licence.

Recently published papers

October 2026 Hasanain, F. A., & Madubuike, O. C.
Digital twin in design architecture: Impact of DT in architectural design for improved building lifecycle management
ITcon Vol. 31, pg. 1219-1244, doi: 10.36680/j.itcon.2026.051
October 2026 Madaschi, F., Cassandro, J., & Trani, M. L.
From visual detection to traceable progress evidence: A schedule-driven ontology framework for construction monitoring
ITcon Vol. 31, pg. 1197-1218, doi: 10.36680/j.itcon.2026.050
September 2026 Fakhr Ghasemi, A., Hu, Y., & Pinto Duarte, J.
BIM and additive manufacturing in 3D concrete printing: A systematic review of digital integration frameworks
ITcon Vol. 31, pg. 1177-1196, doi: 10.36680/j.itcon.2026.049
September 2026 Nascimento, J., Santos, J., & Escórcio, P.
Comparison of surveying techniques for the built environment: A literature review and practical evaluation
ITcon Vol. 31, pg. 1149-1176, doi: 10.36680/j.itcon.2026.048
September 2026 Olofsson Hallén, K., Forsman, M., & Eriksson, A.
Leadership and the integration challenge: A grounded theory study of digital transformation in AECO
ITcon Vol. 31, pg. 1125-1148, doi: 10.36680/j.itcon.2026.047
September 2026 Moayyed, E., & Anumba, C. J.
Performance-driven clause prioritization and smart contract synthesis for construction contract governance: A proof-of-concept framework and preliminary evaluation
ITcon Vol. 31, pg. 1096-1124, doi: 10.36680/j.itcon.2026.046
September 2026 Orooje, M. S., Re Cecconi, F., Lee, G., Mei, Q., & Adil, M.
Toward trustworthy construction safety hazard detection with visual-language models
ITcon Vol. 31, pg. 1067-1095, doi: 10.36680/j.itcon.2026.045
September 2026 Wakefield, J., Doukari, O., Martinez, P., & Kassem, M.
BIM-based ontological framework for individualised site access verification
ITcon Vol. 31, pg. 1042-1066, doi: 10.36680/j.itcon.2026.044
September 2026 Elias, C., Hutchins, I., & Issa, R. R. A.
Operational digital twins in the built environment: A systematic review of semantic infrastructure and deployment practice
ITcon Vol. 31, pg. 1015-1041, doi: 10.36680/j.itcon.2026.043
August 2026 Navarro-Bringas, E.
Towards trustworthy LLMs for project management: Benchmarking a vector hybrid and graph RAG architectures
ITcon Vol. 31, pg. 990-1014, doi: 10.36680/j.itcon.2026.042